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...from Paris in 1921 and joined forces with two other revolutionaries who were to make Mexican art history: Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Together they formed a government-backed syndicate of artists, published a manifesto announcing their intention "to socialize artistic expression." To the syndicate that meant ditching easel painting and going to work on walls-wherever they could find a big, challenging bare...
...Benson's novels; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a showoff English widow (Isabel Jeans) who settles down for the summer of 1912 in a buzzing English village. Christened Emmeline but always called Lu-chee-a, she also affects gaily soulful garments, ostentatiously moves from the easel to the pianoforte, dabbles in Italian, and occasionally drops into baby talk...
...crowded combination living room-den where wife Gertrude's furniture is pushed aside to make room for a grand piano, a harmonium and an easel, Schoenberg works at manuscripts magnified for his weak eyes. Until six years ago, he played avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...
...cheery studio on London's Tite Street, he worked doggedly at his portraits, muttering behind his easel when things didn't work out the way he wanted, "Gainsborough would have done it! ... Gainsborough would have done it." Sometimes he held his sitters' attention by painting his own nose red or pretending to eat his cigar...
...spends his mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone...